Recent content by freefrog

AFAIK, Ibanez Super 70's are low wound pickups (around 7.8k) with a low inductance - around 3.75H. Knowing the kind of Gauss measurements took on their A8 magnets VS above the poles, I'd also wonder about the covers initially mounted by Ibanez: those that I've tested weren't really transparent...

A8 contains less iron than A5. Therefore it makes the inductance lower than an A5 of the same mass. A8 is more efficient magnetically than A5. So an A8 will have a stronger magnetic field than an A5 charged in the same way. Consequences: if an A5 and an A8 of the same mass and charged in the...

Apparently, this model hosts symetrical North/South coils with the same screw poles so the direction shouldn't matter. But normally (and logically), a bridge pickup is installed with its output cable toward the electrical cavity. HTH.

Between A5 and ceramic.

Even if one follows or adapts the wiring schematic of a Strat, P90's have a too high inductance for that. But it's possible to wire a dummy coil in parallel with such pickups in order to make them thinner sounding and more Strat like. For Strat like 2d and 4th positions, I would think about a 1...

Yeah, thx for the demo. Playing is not "poor" to me. Which version do your prefer? Being an anal old fart, I've recorded the tracks through Audacity and displayed the frequency response of each option, just to check visually what was going on. The first half of the clip has globally a slightly...

Yep, I was not far to post the same old ad to complete my previous answer. :D Regarding the frequency used by Schaller to measure the inductance, I'd say it's 1khz: it gives higher inductive readings, like in their catalog. @Sam SG : the excerpts that I've shared are more recent than you PU's...

A page about the 2in1 below. Specs seem extremely close to those of a DM Super D.

Yes, information is hard to find. When it can be found, it appears as an attempt to be precise and accurate, though. Example below - making me wonder at which frequency they test inductance... and if they haven't accidentally swapped their pictures of resonant peaks for series / parallel...

No experience with the Super D clone but generally, Schaller are good German pickups that I'd rank at the same level than Mighty Mite, for instance. Heritage guitars mounted Golden 50 humbuckers as stock pickups, if memory serves me - Golden 50's that I find misnamed since they are actually...

Actually, this question came to my mind too...

You're welcome. If that Fleor Rails HB is sold as "hot", it should have an inductance high enough to act as wanted. Side note: a dummy pickup used as an inductor might flatten the resonant peak a bit more than desired. If it deadens the tone too much, don't hesitate to change the tone pot(s) in...

Regarding the .1: a 490R has an inductance around 5H vs 3.7H to 4.2H for a neck SH2 or SH1. So, yes, it's overwound compared to the Duncan's. About the .2: I'd take generalizations about mags with a grain of salt. Gibson tends to put strongly charged magnets in recent pickups. Strong enough to...

Yeah, the partial split is a better option for lower wound humbuckers... That or another recipe used by PRS and consisting to put low value caps (330pF or 220pF) in parallel to ground with split coils: it makes them a bit closer to real single coils by shifting down their resonant frequency.

It was impossible for me to reply in the previous context where I couldn't post more than 400 characters... Now I can so let's try to be clear. :-) A series capacitor wouldn't give to a 4.75H humbucker the resonant frequency of a 2.83H one. When I want a hi-gain pickup to mimic a lower gain...